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Liam Graham

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The United Kingdom

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“Do we need more than physics to understand the world?” I first asked myself this question as a teenager and it has been the driving force behind my career ever since. After a degree in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge and a master’s in Philosophy at Warwick, I eventually found economics to be an appealing middle ground and completed a PhD at Birkbeck College, London. To pay the rent, I taught English, developed and sold trading software and was the numbers' guru for a boutique finance house.

My 15 year academic career was mostly spent as an Associate Professor at University College London ...more

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	Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Liam Graham and 2 other people liked Miguel Miró's review of Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life: "Very interesting and insightful. One of the best introductions to entropy I have ever read. Some extracts: Had the universe stayed hot enough for long enough, all protons and neutrons would have combined to form iron and no nuclear gradient would exist" Read more of this review »
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Liam Graham liked Nicole Yunger Halpern's review of Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life: "I'm glad to see thermodynamics portrayed as a source of "joy," and I'd have wanted to encounter such a book as a senior in college."
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"[this] grand tour of the physical world leaves little unexamined, starting with simple systems of gas molecules in a box, moving to the smallest, simplest living cells, then on to whole planets. Graham does a stunning job of connecting everything to ...more
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